There are but few places as yet in America which afford the clipped-box avenues, the arcades of blossoming rose-vines, the Pleached alleys, the finely kept and perfect gravel-walks, or, Better than all, the quiet, old-fashioned gardens, down which the ladies may walk, rivals of the flowers.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Arrived at Master Agnew's Doore, found it open, no one in Parlour or Studdy; soe Dick tooke the Horses rounde, and then we went straite thro' the House, into the Garden behind, which is on a rising Ground, with Pleached Alleys and turfen Walks, and a Peep of the Church through the Trees.
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning
The Pleached walks and parterres were in all the freshness of June.
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton